Massacre of the Acqui Division

When

21 Sep 1943 – 26 Sep 1943

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

5,155

Coordinates

38.25° N, 20.59° E

Description

1943 mass execution of Italian soldiers

World War II massacre

The Massacre of the Acqui Division, also known as the Cephalonia massacre, was a war crime by German soldiers against POWs of the Italian 33rd Infantry Division "Acqui" on the island of Cephalonia, Greece, in September 1943, following the Armistice of Cassibile during the Second World War. About 5,000 soldiers were executed, and around 3,000 more drowned.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWII: Massacre of the Acqui Division – German soldiers of the 1st Mountain Division (Wehrmacht) kill over 5,100 Italian military internees resisting…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Начало массового расстрела немцами итальянских военнопленных на острове Кефалиния (Греция), убито около 5000 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page